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January 2016

• 252 compute nodes
  • BULLx B720 DLC
  • Two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 Haswell CPUs per node
    • 2 x 12 cores, 2.5 GHz
    • Cache L1 = 32k, L2 = 256k, L3 = 30MB
    • Intel Hyperthreading Technology (Simultaneous Multithreading)
    • AVX 2.0 ISA extension
    • 1x HDD 64GB 2.5“ 7mm SATA3 SSD
    • 1x port InfiniBand FDR
  • DDR4 RDIMM memory technology (2133 MHz)
    • 252 compute nodes with 128 GiB memory

• 14 visualization nodes, 24 GPUs
  • BULLx R421-E4
  • Two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 Haswell CPUs per node
  • One NVIDIA Tesla K80, 2 x GPUs per node
  • 16 x 16 GiB GDDR5 memory (256GiB) per node
  • 1x ConnectX-3 card single port FDR 56GB PCIe gen3-x8

• 2 Login BULLx R423-E4i servers with 64 GiB memory per node

• 2 NAS BULLx R423-E3 servers
  • 1 Disk Storage NetApp E2700

• 3 ESXi VMware BULLx R423-E4i servers with 128 GiB memory per node
  • 1 Disk Storage NetApp E2700

• 4 GPFS NSD BULLx R423-E3 servers with 64 GiB memory per node
  • 4 Disk Storage NetApp E5500 + 1 enclosure

• NodeBoards based on DLC (Direct Liquid Cooling) Technology by BULLx

• 8 Mellanox FDR InfiniBand Switches (SX6036) with non-blocking fat tree topology 3:1

• 6 CISCO Switches (3750X-24)

R421-E4

Blade B720 DLC

NodeBoard 9 twin blades